Ether, God and Devil by REICH, WILHELM - 1973

Martino Fine Books, 1/1/2019 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Good. 0.3543 in x 9.1732 in x 6.0630 in.

Martino Fine Books, 2019-01-01. paperback. Used: Good.

Martino Fine Books, 2019-01-01. paperback. Used:Good.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1973. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. [nice clean copy with no discernible wear to book; the jacket shows just a touch of edgewear]. A republication of two companions volumes, originally published in 1949 and 1951 respectively, presented together "for the first time so that the reader may better grasp their essential unity." In the first, "Reich describes the process of functional thinking and reveals how the inner logic of this objective thought technique led him to the discovery of cosmic orgone energy; in the second, Reich "steps beyond the character structure of man to an understanding of how man is rooted in nature." Per a prefatory note, Chapters 1-4 in the first book and Chapter 4 in the second have been newly translated from the original German manuscripts, with all other parts having been originally written in English by Reich. .

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.125 in. [x], 308, [2 blanks] pp. Illustrated with numerous black & white diagrams. Fine in original greenish blue cloth and fine dust jacket.

Orgone Institute Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Single date on title page. Reich shows how the ""Devil"" in religion and folklore represents a distortion of man's body sensation and how orgonomy goes beyond his realm. Noted author/psychologist Daniel Schiff's copy, with his signature stamp on the free endpaper and bottom foreedge and no other markings. A groundbreaking work of psychological anthropology. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has mild edge rubbing and is otherwise better than very good, clean and bright. archival Mylar jacket cover included. Scarce.

New York: Orgone Institute, 1949. First edition. Hardbound in very good condition in good dust jacket; Former owner bookplate on front end paper causing it to curl some; Jacket fairly worn and with several short tears and loss to head of spine.. Annals of the Orgone Institute; 127 pages.